I tried about 10 or more different timer apps. Depends a lot on what functionality you want from them. So far I am still testing toggle, paymo, yaware, and time doctor. Time doctor is my favorite so far because of the way they did their desktop app, very convenient, something that I didn’t see at others. It could be that for vast functionality I would use 2 or 3 apps at the same time. There could be also different requirements for myself and my team (some people would use auto-timer like yaware or manic time or paymo, or rescue time when others would like to be more proactive and say what they are tracking and getting other details in there).
I tried everything from harvest to everhour to hour stack (it has to limited functionality for me) but so far I am into this 3 of them.

Is it fair to say that Everhour provides the best integration with Asana out of all the options?

Are there any cheaper options out there that provide this level of integration?

Frustrated user here. I’ve been flitting about over the past few years looking for the best way to manage tasks, track time and track project budgets in our office of 6 people. I wish Asana will build in their own solution; we’d happily upgrade for that.

We’ve been trialing Avaza, which includes all features needed (and competitively priced at $25 for 6 users) but we found that there’s too much friction when it comes to task management and we missed Asana’s 1-click for almost any action.

So I’ve come back for another look at Asana integrations. I’m trialing Everhour now which is nicely integrated, but at $42/mth it’s almost twice the price of Avaza (an entire project management suite) and $42 more than Asana itself.

We’ve been using another application for task management and time tracking and it’s been frustrating because I really miss the frictionless nature of task management in Asana.

And it suddenly occurred to me today that time tracking and task management don’t necessarily go together; because we don’t necessarily want to track time on tasks. We want to track time projects and categories of tasks. For instance, as architects, we want to track how long someone spent drafting and under which project but we don’t need to track how long they spent adding a door to revision B of drawing 103. It’s enough to track which project and what kind of task; maybe what kind of drawing, but nothing more than that.

So I was wondering: are any of the time trackers available for Asana capable of tracking time at a project level rather than the task level? And maybe even a category level if using custom fields perhaps?

But I do wonder if time-tracking inside Asana is a useful thing in our case at all. Why track time in Asana if we’re not going to track time on tasks? Why not just use a separate application altogether?